While promoting Shazam! Fury of the Gods at SDCC last week, Sandberg spoke to Slash Film and took some time to give an update on Lights Out 2. Related: Shazam 2 Continues The Weirdest DCEU Easter Egg While a sequel to Lights Out was greenlit immediately after the film's release in 2016, the project has been in limbo ever since. Lights Out marked Sandberg's feature directorial debut and set the platform for him to helm bigger projects like Annabelle: Creation and the Shazam! films. The film was made on a modest budget of $4 million and turned out to be a major box office success, grossing nearly $150 million worldwide. They are joined by Alexander DiPersia, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Billy Burke, and Maria Bello, who plays the half-siblings' mother, Sophie. I not only enjoyed her performance but I feel she looks the part she looks like a younger version of her.The film features a cast led by Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman, who play the roles of Rebecca and Martin, respectively. Not all bad, though - I feel like the choice of Teresa Palmer as Maria Bello (Sophie)'s character's daughter was a fantastic choice.

There's just so little variation in horror these days. Although that's kind of how I also feel about kids being creepy (or 'troubled'), too. I thought the mental asylum backstory was so played out I feel like maybe that trope should be burned alive. When there are two many jump-atchas, it is jarring and does not make for high replay value (for me, anyway). I'm not a huge fan of 'BOO!' gotcha horror movies, though I come from a generation that was raised on the original Halloween and, for me, that is the apex of subtle, creepy, slow burn etc - everything that makes one get enveloped in a movie. The short film was unsettling and creepy as it was giving it a back story and more detail made it feel cheapened. I feel like we see this a lot - capitalize off some popular internet thing that, when extended, loses some of what made it special in the first place.

While I really loved the short film, I don't necessarily agree that it needed the full length treatment. I knew the lights off/lights on shadow figure thing seemed familiar. It wasn't until I checked the credits that I realized this was based off of the short film by David F.

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